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A BRIEF HISTORY

1984: Rainy afternoons in Salem, Oregon often lend themselves to warm indoor pastimes. It is on such occasions that Sarah L. M. Adler embarks upon many an adventure in the embellishment of written heart-felt messages. Well equipped with a complete 128-color set of crayons, plastic scissors, glue and scraps of whatever paper could be found, a 4-year-old Sarah merrily crafts away grey days, creating cards for her friends and family. Thus begins the love affair between a girl and her handy-craft.

1999: Sarah finds her fondness for design and printmaking while pursuing her BA at the University of California, Berkeley.

2007: Encouraged by a flurry of most talented individuals that she encounters while planning her wedding, Sarah rummages through her piles of dusty, faded paper and starts crafting again. She decides to combine her love of cardmaking with her affinity for design and printmaking.

2008: Hearts & Anchors is founded so that Sarah may share her cards and paper goods with you!

TODAY: Sarah continues to hand-print each card herself on a variety of vintage presses. She lives with her husband, Matthew, and their tabby cat, Cateline, in San Francisco, California.


GREEN EFFORTS

Hearts & Anchors makes every effort to be gentle on the environment. Cards are proudly printed on either 100% recovered cotton rag, found vintage paper/cardstock or 100% post-consumer recycled chip board. Envelopes contain recycled content that ranges from 30%-100% post-consumer waste or are often hand-made from found vintage paper. Sarah is very excited to finally have found biodegradable packaging for her cards, so she is steadily phasing out her current supply of traditional polypropylene bags in favor of planet-friendly polyactide bags (derived from the lactic acid of corn). As of September 2008, Sarah prints out of a completely solar-powered studio space.

Hearts & Anchors also has a website! www.heartsandanchors.com

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